Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special interest high schools in South Australia


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was Keep.  Citi Cat   ♫ 03:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Special interest high schools in South Australia

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Complete waste of space, that provides no benefit to the community Twenty Years 12:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions.   -- Twenty Years 12:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I am not going to make a comment either way yet. Except to say that the article is not nonsense or a joke (see ). So your reasons for nominating should not be trivial and contemptuous. Please provide a real rationale for deletion. Recurring dreams 12:44, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Unencyclopaedic list which seems to be an indiscriminate collection of information. I don't see how this is helps Wikpedia.  &mdash;Moondyne 13:48, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. With some extra information on policy regarding the "special interest" status, and details of when each school obtained that status, it is possible this list would complement other articles on Education in South Australia quite well. JPD (talk) 14:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Maybe transfer the information into a category? GlassCobra (talk • contribs) 20:56, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep perhaps a merge into Education in South Australia. A category does not retain the information on the specialty in an easy to access format.  I don't see the list as indiscriminate, the clear criteria for the list are high schools in the specific geographical location with an identified special interest area. -- Mattinbgn\talk 22:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 06:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. This list would be better as a category. There is some potentially useful information here. The list should remain until all the schools have been appropriately categorised. The additional text information should be added to the category page as a description. Dahliarose 11:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep they are selective schools with specific entry criteria or tests. This makes them notable. Paul foord 12:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Perfectly useful list. Not suitable as a category since each school is annotated with its speciality. TerriersFan 01:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Some good ideas here - I like Dahliarose's/Glasscobra's category idea, as well as Mattinbgn's merge idea. I don't agree the topic merits an article in its own right. Furthermore the name is confusing - "special interest" suggests quite different to "specialist" or "selective", but rather something like "the government has smiled at this school". Orderinchaos 01:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - I agree with your reservations on the title but it is inescapable since it is the official title of the scheme - see here. TerriersFan 23:51, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep - per TerriersFan. Additionally, the user's deletion rationale is not appropriate and is contemptuous to those who created the article in question - how would he like it if I termed him "a waste of space that provides no benefit to the community"? I suspect he wouldn't - and people's articles should not be characterised likewise. JRG 05:15, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The list can't be indiscriminate because the criteria are clear: an item must be a special interest high school and it must be located within the state of South Australia. The list wouldn't work as well as a category because the list allows the reader to see which schools are involved with music, which specialize in particular sports and which are for students with "high intellectual potential" or however they phrase it Down Under. "Usefulness" is an excellent reason to keep a Wikipedia list since being of use is one of the two main reasons we have Wikipedia lists (the other is to illustrate or to show the extent of a particular concept: in this case "Special interest high schools in South Australia"). The list is justifiable as only covering South Australia because, as the article Education in Australia points out in its very first sentence, education policy in that country is largely set at the state level. It is only natural to want to focus on types of schools within a particular Australian state. Noroton 18:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Please see: Articles for deletion/List of high schools in Victoria For some reason, the Victoria list hasn't received the same attention from editors that all the other Australian school lists have in these deletion discussions. Please take a look. Noroton 18:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, normally I don't like lists, but this is an unusually good example, it provides extra information that cannot be done with a category, and the criteria for inclusion are pretty discrete. Also would like to remind the nominator to maintain civility when nominating articles for deletion.  Lankiveil 05:12, 22 September 2007 (UTC).


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.